Poetry terms
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| Prose | show 🗑
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| show | Typically more expressive, more purposeful word choices related to rhyme and meter, organized by lines and stanzas.
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| show | A poem or stanza of two lines. Often, these lines will rhyme and have a certain rhythm.
“A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"
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| show | A 3 line poem or stanza. Often, these lines will rhyme and have a certain rhythm.
Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
When as in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
The liquefaction of her clothes.
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| show | A poem or stanza of 4 lines. Often, these lines will rhyme and have a certain rhythm.
Who knows how long I’ve loved you
You know I love you still
Will I wait a lonely lifetime
If you want me to, I will
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| show | Created by patterns of stressed syllables in a stanza. Sometimes multiple stanzas will have exactly the same pattern of syllables.
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| show | The pattern of similar sounds at the end of lines.
Listen my children , and you shall hear (A)
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, (A)
On the eighteenth of April, in seventy five (B)
Hardly a man is now alive
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| show | When one object represents something else. Metaphor, simile, personification are types of this.
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | Language and/or words that sound like the thing or the action they represent.
Bang! Pow! Crunch. Squeak are examples
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| Figurative Language | show 🗑
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Simile | show 🗑
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| show | When something that is NOT human is described in human terms. The tornado that throws a tantrum though town, screaming and tossing cars... is an example
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| show | This is the person or the voice telling a story in a narrative poem.
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| Subject | show 🗑
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| show | This is what we are supposed to learn about the subject. If the subject of a story is love, what does the reader learn ABOUT that subject.
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| “Warm winds whipped through the willows” This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| “ His heart pounded. It was a drum in his chest.” This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| C. “Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.” This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| “My mom will murder me if I use all of her cell phone minutes again!” This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| “The sweet perfume of the rose filled the air.” This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| show | Onomatopoeia
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| “She ran like the wind.” This is an example of: | show 🗑
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| show | Personification
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